Saturday, August 9, 2014

Alive and Knitting

Hello all!

This year's knitting and spinning has been a season of plowing forward, without a lot of instant gratification casting on and finishing. I've been getting a bit of flack from a certain person who doesn't think sixteen works in progress is reasonable, so I have poured some energy into finishing some of those WIPs. This post is photographic evidence that I am nearing the finish on yet another large project that has lingered for a good while. It was supposed to be a Christmas gift several years ago until a request usurped priority. This year, the request by the intended recipient was for a circular lace blanket in the spirit of my Leaves of Grass, and it seemed like the perfect opportunity to pick up where I had left off.

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A Smidgen of Knitterly Jargon

FO - Finished Object

UFO - Unfinished Object

WIP - Work In Progress

KAL - Knit-a-long; knitters near or far unite over a common project/theme, and more-or-less simultaneously progress through the project. Done well, it can be a very nice way to stay connected over long distances... kinda like watching the same movie while staying on the phone does for long-distance dating. It's a shared process.

frog - I appeal to Theresa Vinson Stenersen's explanation in this article

rip - unraveling your knitting by removing the needle and yanking on the working yarn

tink - undoing your knitting one stitch at a time by reversing the knitting process ("knit" spelled backwards)